I would wipe the disk so theres no shady things, depending on what games u play, i would install linux and use encryption if you would take this laptop to public places. Performance on linux will be much smoother. I recommend endeavouros.
EDIT: also reinstall bios/uefi firmware would be nice, probably not but there might be some spying?
I have it on grapheneos in vpn mode with kill switch so if invizible is off i have no internet connection, for tor u can choose countrys close to u for entry and exit nodes, choose like 5 countries? I have i2p off because it sliws me down and i think its mainly for i2p sites connection. For dns choose servers which seems nice for u. I use adguard and quad9, also for dns i checked "require no log". Block http is also good, rogue dhcp detection. Thats most of settings i changed.
I had similar problem. I started with fl studio and then changed windows to linux and tried so hard to make fl work on arch, but it was too glitchy. I tried alot: ardour, tracktion waveform, bitwig demo and almost every foss daw and ended at reaper, when u understand it is kinda better than fl, u can make really heavy customization, dont like 1 click note insert? Change it in preferences to what u like, its the same problem with every program, start learning and u will find it easy and fun to use, for plugins as some other people in this comment section said, yabridge, i use amplitube 5 for guitar with it.
Thank you for your comment, maybe people wont read 1:1 code, atleast they will learn how this kinda works, because now they just install things, but looking at templates they can actually understand its kinda simple script and get the idea of how it works. Also i wasn't comparing exactly xbps main void repos to AUR but overall xbps-src to aur, which can be similar because people can share templates, anyway we should still understand what package manager does and what download scripts are doing. Also void has runit so this mean u have to get more simple programs to run system like seatd dbus and etc. So overall i 2 arguments of void being better in understand of OS is actually knowing how to maintain packages and how system works from boot. Anyway i understand it is your opinion, all i can is tell u my opinion.
Edit: when i used systemd my system booted in 13sec, now on runit its 8sec, not really important thing but still
wow, first time i see gif as profile pic :D yeah i disabled like 2 days ago votes and now i have actually no idea what comment on this post can have down or up votes and truly it feels nice, I recommend it to everybody
i dont know if it will be safe because of ROOT_PASSWORD USER_PASSWORD and ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD